Notepad++

Here's the v5 Release Candidate :
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/commun/misc/npp.5.0.RC.bin.zip

One new feature that you html/xml guys will adore it : Tag match highlighting.
Otherwise a lot of found bugs in v5 beta are fixed in this release.
(see : https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2082790&forum_id=331753 )

Sure you will still find bugs since the architecture of Notepad++ are modified partially in order to improve the performance.

To make v5 OR more stable, please post your bug reports here.

v5 OR will be available in one week.

Don

sweet jebus!!!!! tag highlighting at long last!!!!
$20 donation officially earned.

maybe in future versions, options to:
- highlight just the tagnames rather than entire tags when cursor is inside the tagname only
- highlight a tag's both matching angle brackets when cursor is just outside and adjacent eg: |< or >| or />|
- highlight unmatched (unclosed) tags with a different style
...for ideal operation of this functionality, check out any SynWeb-based editors.

if you get a chance, please add the ability to close the last unclosed tag by typing </

thanks,
Leon

I posted this bug before, but maybe it was overlooked:

i changed the stylers.xml and noticed that the hidden CR LF pairs (when displayed) obey the "default" styling for the active syntax, while tabs and spaces are always black....there simply is no way to change their color, and it's pretty much unusable with a dark background color like the one in "Ruby Blue" stylers.xml on the NP++ download page.

ideally it would be great to be able to style "hidden characters" independent of the "default" syntax color, they are really way too intrusive and hard to distinguish from regular text.

hope it's an easy fix, let me know if it's a scintilla bug, i'll file it in their/his bugtracker.

regards,
Leon

p.s. - the donation from your page link went to "sourceforge" which is sort of generic, hope it gets to you.

warning, potentially emotional and/or non logical statements may follow --->

I would like to take a moment to thank anyone who has worked on this project to date. Stand back and look at the amazing application you have created. Get reinvigorated by the fact that you have made a real difference to many peoples lives and that the impact of what you do may be more than you expect.

My personal heart-felt thank you goes to all who's contribution no matter how small or big have helped. Keep up the good work.

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Thanks for this great work !

Just to say that npp5rc crashes under wine 1.0.
see : http://leohome.free.fr/images/npp5rc-bug.png

HTH


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Hugues Leonardi

Now having said that there seems to be a problem with this RC on applying language styles.

I seem to have problems with files with a name like foo.class.php. I can fix it by changing the language to something other than php or html and then back to php.

I got the syntax highlight problems on PHP too.
But I don't known whether it is caused by the file name or not. Some of the PHP files with this problem are named like "XXX_1.php", "XXX_2.php", etc.. But I cannot change it back to PHP highlight using the method mentioned by CodeNexus.
And I load those file using "Load Session" function.

The Tag match highlighting seems sometimes highlight the wrong tag even the html structure is fine.

A tiny thing: when you start NP++ directly (without doubleclicking on a textfile) there's a new document created like in previous versions (named "new1").

But unlike in previous versions the titel of the NP++ window is now empty, also the correspondent taskbar button displays no text: http://img3.imagebanana.com/img/yigcdh2g/npp.png

Would be nice if the Tag match highlighting color would be configurable, it's quite hard to see black text on a dark grey background

That means your stylers.xml hasnt been updated properly.
if you have a custom stylers file, open the new one and in global styles find the one for tag matching, otherwsie jsut remove your stylers file and notepad++ will make a new one based of the model file.

Does this apply aswell if you extract the RC to a new folder and run it from there? I have been unable to reproduce this behaviour, thoguh it is a bug.

-Harry

What would be the easiest way to reproduce this behaviour? I tried making a new php file with the same name, add some tags in it and open it in notepad++, it was being highighted.
Any steps I need to do specifically?

Hi Don,
really great work, npp helps me every day!!

One (little) problem:

Example:

For /F "delims=; %%A IN (%Timer_PathFile_Korr%) DO (
For /F %%a IN ("!AktProgramA!") DO (
)
)

-- as "Normal Text" the braces highlighting is ok.

-- as "Batch" the braces (in this special case) are not highlighted.
many other cases do work.

The calltips work fine now with case-insensitive sorting in the XML file. But they appear at the very top of the screen for me, rather than near the cursor as expected. Otherwise, everything appears to work fine so far.

It looks like the position of the calltips is correct after I type a backspace.

It seems that the v5 is running and you open your file by using Explorer context menu "Edit with Notepad++" entry.

It happens because "Edit with Notepad++" entry point to your v4.9.2. It launches v4.9.2 and found a npp instance, so redirects to the running v5 instance.

To remedy that, just copy v5 over to your v4.x.

Don

hi.

i wanna report an undesired behavior with the in-line search hi-light feature.

if you open a big file and make the error of asking to highlight a short string or even a single charachter, the gui freezes (in a very single thread feeling) until it finishes the user request...

well, maybe i've requested it but i'd like to regain access to the gui ;)



however thanks, with the improved startup speed i can definitely associate n++ to .txt


thanks

paolo

Confirmed, I'll try to fix it before the next release.

-Harry

Notepad++ makes no use of any threading at all. There are plans to add this but that takes quite a lot of work and time :).

Smart highlighting gets automatically disabled for files larger than 1.5MB, though for complex data a lower value might be needed.
You can disable smart highlighting and use the incremental search or mark search results features instead.

-Harry

If someone could point me to the most recent version of the language xml file for English, I think I can update the German translation before the OR of 5.0.

Thanks for the hint, really seems to be a bug dependent on a certain setting:
I found that this happens when you uncheck "Settings" > "Misc" > "Remember the current session for next launch"

A new page has been added to the Notepad++ Wiki, with pointers on creating your own AutoCompletion files. It can be found here:
http://notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge.net/Create_AutoComplete

-Harry

Caret blinking rate bug: it is impossible to set this thing to non-blinking. Or at least I don't know how to do it.

You set it to blinkRate="2500", it blinks slowly. You set it to blinkRate="0" (by editing the config file), it blinks normally. You delete the property, it blinks normally. You move the caret preferences slider to the most-left, it blinks quickly.

There is no way to set this to non-blinking. I suggest that when the caret blinking slider in preferences is moved to the most-left, then it would not blink.

Thank you, all other bugs seem fixed, except inability to select filename only (without path) in the window title. I'll keep testing.

I do not use "Edit with Notepad++".
I load the session file.
And I tried what you said, but the syntax highlight still wrong.